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Healthcare Support · Updated Aug 2026

Personal Care Aides

Provide personalized assistance to individuals with disabilities or illness who require help with personal care and activities of daily living support (e.g., feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and ambulation). May also provide help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry. Work is performed in various settings depending on the needs of the care recipient and may include locations such as their home, place of work, out in the community, or at a daytime nonresidential facility.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
52/100
Moderate

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
46/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence82/100
Task coverage87%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance.High
70
Care for individuals or families during periods of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles.High
70
Prepare and maintain records of client progress and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to manager or supervisor.High
63
Provide clients with communication assistance, typing their correspondence or obtaining information for them.High
61
Participate in case reviews, consulting with the team caring for the client, to evaluate the client's needs and plan for continuing services.High
64
Plan, shop for, or prepare nutritious meals or assist families in planning, shopping for, or preparing nutritious meals.High
68
Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and medication, under the direction of registered nurses or physiotherapists.High
30
Instruct or advise clients on issues, such as household cleanliness, utilities, hygiene, nutrition, or infant care.High
24
Perform housekeeping duties, such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes or dishes, or running errands.High
17
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance.70
  2. Care for individuals or families during periods of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles.70
  3. Plan, shop for, or prepare nutritious meals or assist families in planning, shopping for, or preparing nutritious meals.68
  4. Participate in case reviews, consulting with the team caring for the client, to evaluate the client's needs and plan for continuing services.64
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Perform housekeeping duties, such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes or dishes, or running errands.01
  2. Instruct or advise clients on issues, such as household cleanliness, utilities, hygiene, nutrition, or infant care.02
  3. Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and medication, under the direction of registered nurses or physiotherapists.03
  4. Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance.04
  5. Care for individuals or families during periods of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency59
Physical dependency58
Adoption pressure52
Labour-market resilience64
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence82/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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